The following presentations have been created for the aid of parents
- How To Support Your Child Through Senior School
- Raising Good Boys into Good Men
- Big Fish into Little Fish ? Easing the Transition into High School.
How To Support Your Child Through Senior School
Assisting our children through the pressure and stress of Senior School and the HSC is receiving more and more media attention.
The presentation “How to support your child through Senior School and the HSC”, presented by Rocky Biasi from Human Connections will explore 7 critical aspects in supporting, and motivating our children to achieve their academic potential and be their best during this time.
1. DEVELOPMENTAL PSYCHOLOGY OF ADOLESENCE
- Latest research on how the brain develops has discovered that the brain develops fully by the age of 23.
2. THEY WON’T LISTEN! INFLUENCE VERSUS CONTROL
- Communicating effectively with your teenager
- Mutual Respect
- Empathy
- Balance
3. HOW TO HELP YOUR CHILD STAY FOCUSSED AND MOTIVATED
- Eating to support brain functioning
- Exercise (the latest research on exercise and academic results)
- Sleep (the importance of sleep to maintain healthy mental health, focus and motivation). Secrets to a good night sleep:
4. CREATING A STUDY– FRIENDLY HOME
- Physical Space
- Emotional Support
5. HOW TO MOTIVATE YOUR CHILD – CREATING A SUCCESS MINDSET
- Self Belief (how to build it and how to hinder it)
- Sense of Control
- Effective Planning and Study Management
6. HOW YOUR CHILD CAN BECOME UNMOTIVATED
- ANXIETY & WORRY
- Strategies to tackle anxiety and worry
- Failure Avoidance
7. WHEN THE RESULTS COME IN.
Raising Good Boys into Good Men
Boys have real dangers in their lives. They are three times more likely to die before the age of twenty-one, and five times more likely to have problems at school. Millions of boys have poor life chances because we have failed to understand them.
But with the new realisation of boys’ needs – for exercise, for warm and firm relationships with mothers, for fathers and other good men in their lives to be active and engaged, for schools that know how to teach in boy-friendly ways – we can save them still. We can raise a generation of boys that are happier, more alive, more connected to the human race, just in time for a world that so badly needs good men. Steve Biddulph Raising Boys
As a Secondary High School Teacher and School Counsellor also in private practice, the issues outlined above by Steve Biddulph resonates in my experience as a teacher and counsellor.
Due to many requests I have created a parent presentation that supports parents and adults interested in supporting boys become good men.
The presentation looks at:
- Some ways to support boys
- Four major elements that drives a boys self-definition
- The three stages of boys development
- The transition from boyhood to manhood
- Containment and Structure
- Discipline and Punishment
- School and Learning
- Boys and Sport
- Bullying
Big Fish into Little Fish – Easing the Transition into High School
Many students are able to ease in the transition from primary school into secondary school. However, for many students and parents the transition into secondary school offers many challenges. This parent presentation aims to complement the Year 7 “Big Fish into Little Fish” presentation students.
This presentation offers parents:
- An understanding of the psychological and physiological stage of adolescence
- Connection parenting – influencing our Year 7 Student
- Relationships – friends, peers, teachers and parents
- Boundaries
- Helping with homework
- Planning and organisation
- Building resilience and optimism
- Home as a learning environment
- Bullying – identifying and responding.